**The State killed all my friends birds!!**

[pips&peeps]

Pullorum is a big threat to the poultry industry, that is why NPIP was formed so many years ago. Georgia has a huge poultry industry and they are not going to take any chances, that is why the flock was destroyed. It was justified.

I was told by a represenative at the Georgia NPIP Headquarters that they had discovered pullorum in some ameraucanas in Missouri last year.

Georgia law requires all birds, chicks and hatching eggs imported into the State come from NPIP certified flocks and an import permit.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I just read up on it.

That pullorum is nasty stuff and though it's awful to lose 1 entire flock, it's a whole lot better than spreading it to other people's flocks via hatching eggs, chicks, and human contact.

People get up in arms and start shouting "down with government", but the reality is that intervention on flocks that have infectious diseases like this is necessary to prevent our own flocks from being infected.

 

[Cetawin]

well if only 3 birds from his flock tested positive, why not destroy those 3, come back and do a recheck in a couple of weeks and see if any others test positive? They are out running around doing their testing anyway so it would not hurt them to come back and check.

And who is to say that their test was done properly, that the right samples were reviewed etc etc. Oh, I hope no one every comes to try to mess with my flock...you will all see the headlines here for sure.

"Little 5'2" heavily armed woman holds off officials from the USDA, FBI, SWAT, several local law enforcement officials, humane society, SPCA and an unknown number of other 'officials' who went to HER property to attempt to destroy her birds. More on this story later as it unfolds."

 

[DiVon80]

You just contradicted your self. What! Have you not read about NAIS/ HR-875/HR-699 Oh I know! We are giving diseases to the illegals. Do you not know about foreign fertlizers. Do you even care...How about all the lead paint on kids toys from china. Or maybe you haven't had to rebuild your community yet from a natural disaster. Get you some chinese sheetrock.. It will kill you. All this evidence and you still believe in them. What about all the cats and dogs dying from stuff they sold to put in pet foods,even baby formulas... P.S. I would still want a second opinion from my vet. Yeah they aren't even protecting us, their tax paying people from disease. They would shut our borders..

 

[Blueroo63]

this is scary thing,so now I wnder if going true the testing on what I know is a healthy flock of birds that I have is worth the headace,
and yes our goverment is out of control,but we the people need to no more then talk about how sorry the govermnet is and make a stand agianst them at this point,TALK IS CHEEP,ACTION IS NEEDED

 

[rancher hicks]

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The advice from the USDA is to quarantine any bird/birds. Everyone on this site should go to the USDA website and get the "free" information available. It is FREE. It tells how to avoid disease.

 

[rancher hicks]

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That would be like saying all chicken people are liars, don't ya think? You must understand that if there is an outbreak of newcastle disease or AI it could decimate alot of poultry. Not only that it can be spread by any type of bird, not just poultry. Parrots, canaries, budgies and wild birds as well. We don't know all the information about his flocks. We don't all take the same precautions to avoid disease.
I recently visited my sister in laws place. She's watering her birds out of open buckets in the yard. Criminy! mosquitoes can spread disease. It was a wet day and the place was a mud hole.
Disease can spread like a house a fire. I ain't going there again and I wouldn't buy any birds or eggs from her.

 

[DiVon80]

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If only 3 tested positive(so the govt. says) and they killed the whole flock-What about all the wild birds that were exposed, they should of been caught and destroyed also. think about what is being said... If this is contagous to all other birds then they should of been captured and destroyed also...They(cardinals,sparrows,blubirds,crows that come and eat and drink. For that matter they could go to another farm and spread it. Just think about it. I dought very seriously any one can keep wild birds away from there flocks...

 

[DiVon80]

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That would be like saying all chicken people are liars, don't ya think? You must understand that if there is an outbreak of newcastle disease or AI it could decimate alot of poultry. Not only that it can be spread by any type of bird, not just poultry. Parrots, canaries, budgies and wild birds as well. We don't know all the information about his flocks. We don't all take the same precautions to avoid disease.
I recently visited my sister in laws place. She's watering her birds out of open buckets in the yard. Criminy! mosquitoes can spread disease. It was a wet day and the place was a mud hole.
Disease can spread like a house a fire. I ain't going there again and I wouldn't buy any birds or eggs from her.

This is an example of taking sentences out of context.. Now you have me saying chicken people are liars. I am just tring to keep poultry people with there flocks, What you just described about your sisters place is exactly what the deep south is all about I live 2 miles from the honey Island swamp. Not counting all the marsh land and other swamp areas in the whole south. Go to Jerry's Seramas look at the beautiful pictures of swamp land surround is home and flock. So what you just said is you won't buy a bird from a breeder who lives near a swamp or better yet anyone who lives in the south must have diseases. Do you even know what an immune system is!!!

 

[speckledhen]

pips&peeps :

Pullorum is a big threat to the poultry industry, that is why NPIP was formed so many years ago. Georgia has a huge poultry industry and they are not going to take any chances, that is why the flock was destroyed. It was justified.

I was told by a represenative at the Georgia NPIP Headquarters that they had discovered pullorum in some ameraucanas in Missouri last year.

Georgia law requires all birds, chicks and hatching eggs imported into the State come from NPIP certified flocks and an import permit.

Yes, pullorum is a bad, bad disease, but I've heard that state officials have said that it and typhoid are all but eradicated. We have had old, supposedly long-gone human diseases rear their ugly heads again (dont get me started on how I think that is happening, though) so, guess we can see a new rise in old poultry diseases.
I do think that they should test and quarantine flocks rather than automatically destroy without testing, however, I do not want a flock with a highly communicable disease or compromised immune system.
My policy, decided before I ever got chickens, is to destroy any ill birds (respiratory stuff), NEVER to treat them. I do not buy birds, period. If it was found that I did have one of those terrible diseases through testing, yes, I would have my flock destroyed. I would be devastated, but it would be necessary.​